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MORESK

Volume 3 · 45 words · 1771 Edition

or MORISCO, is a kind of painting, carving, &c., done after the manner of the Moors; consisting of several grotesque pieces and compartments, promiscuously mingled, not containing any perfect figure of a man, or other animal; but a wild resemblance of birds, beasts, trees, &c.